Abstract
Present research examined the effects of personality traits on procrastination and it also investigated that how personality traits play an integral role in the development of procrastination. It was assumed that different personality traits had its positive and negative impact on procrastination. The sample was selected by using two-way cluster sampling, included 254 students (74 males and 180 females) from The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Tuckman Procrastinatio n Scale (Tuckman, 1991), HEXACO Personality Inventory- Revised (Ashton & Lee, 2009) were administered to the selected participants. Results pointed out positive relationship among honesty-humility, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and procrastination, while emotionality has negative correlation with procrastination. Similarly it was indicated through multiple regression analysis that personality traits were stronger predictor of procrastination. In sum, the present findings provide adequate understanding of the relationship of some positive and negative impact of personality traits on procrastination. The implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations are taken into consideration for future research.
Keyword(s)
Personality Traits, Procrastination, Two-way cluster sampling